When Colonel Stephens first opened the railway Rolvenden served as his locomotive workshop in a similar capacity to today.

However the limited machinery and space meant during the 1930s it became harder to overhaul the line's ageing fleet.

The locomotive shed and passenger station closed in 1954[2][3] and both were subsequently demolished.

The Kent and East Sussex Railway built a new locomotive shed on the other side of the line from the original.

The railway also owns the field next to it and has plans to use at least part of it as a car park.